![small image of whirlpool galaxy M51](https://mosqueeto.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/whirlpool-.jpg)
A chestnut. Taken with a small (61mm) low-power telescope from my light-polluted back yard. Heavily cropped, otherwise it would be too small to identify. I’m running into the limits of my equipment — this is about 200 individual one minute exposures stacked together, taken over two nights.